Would be nice to see Kingdom Rush Alliance and Iron Marines Invasion here too.

Oh, nice! Wishlisted.

Great game and great series :)

This one looks very fun, but I stopped buying Kingdom Rush games when the developers decided to no longer provide Linux support with their new games.

Awesome!

I hope we'll see Alliance here, too, eventually :)

For those of you who wish to see the remaining Ironhide games here on GOG, all I have to say is: Just buy them on Steam! All Ironhide games on Steam are DRM-Free (except Kingdom Rush Vengeance). So if you really want to play Kingdom Rush Alliance, Legends of Kingdom Rush, and Iron Marines Invasion, you can totally enjoy them DRM-Free without the Steam app. Just note that for Legends of Kingdom Rush the daily challenge won't work without the Steam app. Nothing is stopping you guys from buying and enjoying those games there. The sooner you get rid of the "buy only from one store" mentality, the happier you will be (I say that from experience). I also recommend getting the Steam version of Kingdom Rush Frontiers, because that version has two endless stages which are not featured in the GOG version. Just wanna help my fellow GOG users expand their horizons:-)

That's very considerate of you, but I don't want to "expand my horizons" if it involves supporting steam's monopoly or sabotage game's preservation

Fair enough, Memecchi. I respect those who do have any standards nowadays. And while I don't think in a broader way like you do, I have always stayed clear of anything that's freemium or in general has any form of microtransactions. I won't ever support that business model. And while Steam is full of such games (even GOG has GWENT), the Steam DRM is not forced on anyone. That explains why there are so many DRM-Free games there, and they are just as DRM-Free as those from GOG - you are free to copy and store them wherever you want. And do remember that choosing not to buy anything from Steam, you will be locking out many indie developers. And I do love supporting indie developers there most of all, because Steam has much more of the genres that I love. It's anything from ARPGs, gamebooks, hidden object games, idle games, puzzle games, match 3, tower defense, and Vampire Survivors clones. So why shouldn't I support the devs whose games I actually love playing? And since we are on the topic of tower defense, I want to mention my other favorite DRM-Free games of that genre from Steam which aren't on GOG: Bardbarian, Cursed Treasure 2, Evil Defenders, Last Hope - Tower Defense, Orcs Must Die! 3, Siegebreaker, Tiny Guardians, Zombie Builder Defense 2, Zombo Buster Advance, and Zombo Buster Rising. GOG just can't compete in certain genres. I tested those games myself, which I do by simply shutting down Steam and renaming 'steam.exe' to something like 'steama.exe', and then starting the games from their main executable.

The Steam software is enforced on all their customers. That explains why there is no such thing as a DRM-free game on Steam.

Wow, that was a QUICK reply xD Did you even read the last part of my post? Then tell me why I have so many games in my Steam library which I can play without the Steam app.

Simple. You need the steam client at least initially to download and install the game. I'm mostly playing on an offline Windows 7 machine. And I am not going to switch to Windows 10 or 11 at all. That means no steam and therefore no steam games.

Besides, it's just way more convenient to have a store where you can rely on games being drm-free.

Ironhide is also a bit of a weird case for your point - this is the announcement for their latest KRV dlc - so they are still actively bringing content to gog. And on a steam thread they have confirmed that gog is a possibility for Alliance in the future. So there is really no reason to abandon gog on that front now...

That’s exactly it. Someone who disagrees with DRM usage, and as such won’t install some mandatory third-party software to access their games, can not access any Steam game at all.

I have obviously no problem with people playing Steam games, I am not expecting everyone to have the same strict rules about DRM. But pretending that these games are DRM-free is distorting what DRM is about, and as such has a detrimental effect for people who want truly DRM-free distribution to keep being a thing.

I see, Vive de Lestai. I'm glad that you still have your haven on your Win7 machine. I don't know how long I clinged to my Win7, but it was long enough that I skipped Win8 entirely. Eventually my Win7 started making so much noise that I gave it to my mother and bought a Win10 machine instead. You do make a strong case for GOG for those who are still lucky to have previous operating systems. My posts are aimed at those who have Win10 or newer.

It's true that on GOG you can rely on games being DRM-Free. That's not the case on Steam. If you google about DRM-Free games on Steam, there will be sites that list such games but won't include all because new titles are constantly released. So it becomes a guessing game. Over the years I have become very good at that guessing game by discovering patterns in developers and publishers. And yes, that means I have bought games which aren't DRM-Free, but I still keep them and will eventually play them. Some games I don't care if they aren't DRM-Free because I bought them specifically to play with friends on Steam. For all the DRM-Free games I have discovered this way, I'm very happy with the result. It was totally worth it.

Ironhide does (thankfully) still support KRV on GOG, but their latest three games aren't on GOG yet. The oldest of them, Legends of Kingdom Rush, was released in July 2022 on Steam. If people here on GOG really want to play them, there is no reason to wait for them to arrive on GOG, when they are playable on Steam without the client running. And I have played all three of them. I don't want anyone to abandon GOG. I'm trying to say that people can be a GOG user and Steam user at the same time. I have 428 games on GOG and 334 on Steam as of right now.
You are right in your statements, vv221. Both Steam and Epic Games Store are a grey areas concerning DRM. I'm open-minded enough to accept those environments. I have been a GOG user for a quite a while just like you. I felt limited in my game options on GOG due to new releases being slow and eventually had to break out of my "buy only on GOG" bubble. For example, without Epic I wouldn't have DRM-Free versions of Satisfactory, Standed Deep, Subnautica, Subnautica Below Zero, and Voidtrain (GOG is also lacking in open world survival games). GOG will always be around for truly DRM-Free distribution and I will always be a customer here. I'm eternally thankful for having Dying Light and Grim Dawn + all their DLCs fully DRM-Free from GOG.

@Tlaksie It's certainly interesting that not all steam games incorporate drm - aside from the initial installation method via the steam client. I only learned about that a few months ago - so your point is certainly interesting for people who don't know that, yet!

I'm also not super religious about drm as long as there's an "unofficial" drm-free version of a game. I always try to buy games on gog full price. However, when I'm convinced that a game will never come to gog, I buy it on steam. Heck, I even have one game on the epic store (Alan Wake 2).
Whenever I'm unsure, I buy games on steam on a sale and again on gog if it's released here ;)

Personally I'm pretty sure that there are few people who boycott steam completely. Then again - gog's catalog is massive and in theory one could easily spend a life time with the games available here.